In Fiction
Ay appears as a major character in P. C. Doherty's trilogy of Ancient Egyptian novels, An Evil Spirit Out of the West, The Season of the Hyaena and The Year of the Cobra. He is also a character in Mika Waltari's historical novel The Egyptian and Wolfgang Hohlbein's Die Prophezeihung (The Prophecy). He is also a major character in Michelle Moran's bestselling novel Nefertiti. Ay is the villain of Lucile Morrison's 1937 young adult novel The Lost Queen of Egypt.
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